11.   John Irving adapted his novel for the screen.

12.   Merchant is the producer, Ivory the director, and the novel has been adapted by the third member of the team, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

13.   Screenwriter Tony Gilroy was faced with his own dilemma in adapting the novel.

14.   She adapts his novels, working alone upstairs.

15.   Sometimes when he adapts a novel for the screen, Schiff said, he feels like an old-fashioned book editor, the kind that used to actually edit novels.

16.   To adapt a novel for the screen, filmmakers almost always need to be ruthless.

17.   Pulitzer winner William Kennedy of Albany will join Banks at a workshop on Friday on adapting a novel to the screen.

18.   Crichton and Levinson has collaborated before when the director adapted the novel Disclosure for Warner Bros.

19.   From the beginning, Drabinsky wanted Terrence McNally to adapt the novel.

20.   The film demonstrates the perils of adapting crime novels to the screen.